March is Colon Cancer Awareness month, a public health outreach effort to reduce the devastating toll of the number two cancer killer in the U.S. With over 150,000 new cases and 52,000 deaths each ...

You know that you should book a mammogram every two years and a dental cleaning every year, but what about the rest of your body? A colonoscopy is a routine medical procedure that could save your life ...

A growing number of people under 50 are being diagnosed with more advanced stages of colon cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. The 2020 death of 43-year-old actor Chadwick Boseman due to ...

Rates of colon cancer in people under 50 have grown in recent decades. One study found that 82% of young colon cancer patients were misdiagnosed initially. Two women who had colon cancer in their 30s ...

Table 1. Screening for colorectal cancer and adenoma detection for average-risk women and men aged 50 years and older.

Roughly eight years after treatment, 81% of female colon cancer survivors still had GI symptoms, say researchers who analyzed medical data from more than 400 women. Photo by nastya_gepp/Pixabay Colon ...

Christine Bronstein took a home colon cancer test after seeing blood in her stool. It was positive. Her doctor assured her she didn't have cancer, but a colonoscopy found she had stage 3. She's ...

As a wave of colon cancer hits young people, seemingly at random, a worrying new pattern has emerged. Women, in particular, are coming forward in droves saying their symptoms were dismissed for months ...

Brooks Bell and Sarah Beran connected online in July 2023 over something unfortunate they had in common: they were both treated for colon cancer in their 30s after doctors misdiagnosed them. Now, they ...